16 year old Taylor Oh is
cursed: if she is touched by the ghost of a murder victim then they
pass a mark beneath her skin. She has three weeks to find their murderer
and pass the mark to them - letting justice take place and sending them
into the Darkness. And if she doesn't make it in time? The Darkness
will come for her... She spends her life trying to avoid ghosts, make it
through school where she's bullied by popular Justin and his cronies,
keep her one remaining friend, and persuade her father that this is real
and that she's not going crazy.

And then Justin is murdered and
everything gets a whole lot worse. Justin doesn't know who killed him,
so there's no obvious person for Taylor to go after. The clues she has
lead her to the V Club, a vicious secret-society at her school where no
one is allowed to leave... And where Justin was dared to do the stunt
which led to his death. Can she find out who was responsible for his
murder before the Darkness comes for her? Can she put aside her hatred
for her former bully to truly help him? And what happens if she starts
to fall for him?

“Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!” And she sprinted away, up the stairs.“What does she understand?” said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.“Loads more than I do,” said Ron, shaking his head.“But why’s she got to go to the library?”“Because that’s what Hermione does,” said Ron, shrugging. “When in doubt, go to the library.”

måndag 29 juli 2013

Titel: In the AfterFörfattare: Demitria LunettaSerie: In the After #1Sidor: 455

They hear the most silent of footsteps.They are faster than anything you've ever seen.And They won't stop chasing you...until you are dead.

Amy
is watching TV when it happens, when the world is attacked by Them.
These vile creatures are rapidly devouring mankind. Most of the
population is overtaken, but Amy manages to escape—and even rescue
“Baby,” a toddler left behind in the chaos. Marooned in Amy’s house, the
girls do everything they can to survive—and avoid Them at all costs.

After
years of hiding, they are miraculously rescued and taken to New Hope, a
colony of survivors living in a former government research compound.
While at first the colony seems like a dream with plenty of food,
safety, and shelter, New Hope slowly reveals that it is far from ideal.
And Amy soon realizes that unless things change, she’ll lose Baby—and
much more.

Cammie Morgan has lost
her father and her memory, but in the heart-pounding conclusion to the
best-selling Gallagher Girls series, she finds her greatest mission yet.
Cammie and her friends finally know why the terrorist organization
called the Circle of Cavan has been hunting her. Now the spy girls and
Zach must track down the Circle’s elite members to stop them before they
implement a master plan that will change Cammie—and her
country—forever.

tisdag 23 juli 2013

2113. In Jenna Strong’s
world, ACID – the most brutal, controlling police force in history –
rule supreme. No throwaway comment or muttered dissent goes unnoticed –
or unpunished. And it was ACID agents who locked Jenna away for life,
for a bloody crime she struggles to remember.

The only female
inmate in a violent high-security prison, Jenna has learned to survive
by any means necessary. And when a mysterious rebel group breaks her
out, she must use her strength, speed and skill to stay one step ahead
of ACID – and to uncover the truth about what really happened on that
dark night two years ago.

måndag 22 juli 2013

Weeks after his
crucifixion and rebirth as Phoenix, Ash Fisher believes his troubles are
far behind him. He and Natalie are engaged and life seems good. But his
happiness is short-lived when he receives a threatening visit from
Purian Rose, who gives Ash an ultimatum: vote in favor of Rose’s Law
permanently relegating Darklings to the wrong side of the wall or
Natalie will be killed.

The decision seems obvious to Ash; he
must save Natalie. But when Ash learns about The Tenth, a new and deadly
concentration camp where the Darklings would be sent, the choice
doesn’t seem so simple. Unable to ignore his conscience, Ash votes
against Rose’s Law, signing Natalie’s death warrant and putting a
troubled nation back into the throes of bloody battle.

Annabeth is terrified.
Just when she's about to be reunited with Percy - after six months of
being apart, thanks to Hera - it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing
for war. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo fly in on the
Argo II, she can't blame the Roman demigods for thinking the ship is a
Greek weapon. With its steaming bronze dragon figurehead, Leo's
fantastical creation doesn't appear friendly. Annabeth hopes that the
sight of their praetor Jason on deck will reassure the Romans that the
visitors from Camp Half-Blood are coming in peace.

And that's
only one of her worries. In her pocket, Annabeth carries a gift from her
mother that came with an unnerving command: Follow the Mark of Athena.
Avenge me. Annabeth already feels weighed down by the prophecy that will
send seven demigods on a quest to find - and close - the Doors of
Death. What more does Athena want from her?

Annabeth's biggest
fear, though, is that Percy might have changed. What if he's now
attached to Roman ways? Does he still need his old friends? As the
daughter of the goddess of war and wisdom, Annabeth knows she was born
to be a leader - but never again does she want to be without Seaweed
Brain by her side.

“Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.” “Percy and Hedge lay on the deck, looking exhausted. Hedge was missing
his shoes. He grinned at the sky, muttering, “Awesome. Awesome.” Percy
was covered in nicks and scratches, like he’d jumped through a window.
He didn’t say anything but he grasped Annabeth’s hand weakly as if to
say, Be right with you as soon as the world stops spinning.Leo, Piper, and Jason, who’d been eating in the mess hall, came rushing up the stairs. “What? What?” Leo cried, holding a half-eaten grilled cheese sandwich. “Can’t a guy even take a lunch break? What’s wrong?”“Followed!” Frank yelled again. “Followed by what? Jason asked.“I don’t know!” Frank panted. “Whales? Sea monsters? Maybe Kate and Porky!”Annabeth
wanted to strangle the guy, but she wasn’t sure her hands would fit
around his thick neck. “That makes absolutely no sense.”

Markera för spoiler:“Percy tightened his grip on Annabeth's wrist. His face was gaunt,
scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked
eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome. "We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again." Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall. "As long as we're together," she said. She
heard Nico and Hazel still screaming for help. She saw the sunlight
far, far above-maybe the last sunlight she would ever see. Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.”
spoiler slut.

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.

Percy is confused. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his
name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he
is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket.
Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the
fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp
doesn't ring any bells with him. The only thing he can recall from his
past is another name: Annabeth

Hazel is supposed to be dead.When she lived before, she didn't do a very good job of it. Sure, she
was an obedient daughter, even when her mother was possessed by greed.
But that was the problem — when the Voice took over her mother and
commanded Hazel to use her "gift" for an evil purpose, Hazel couldn't
say no. Now because of her mistake, the future of the world is at risk.
Hazel wished she could ride away from it all on the stallion that
appears in her dreams.

Frank is a klutz.His
grandmother says he is descended from heroes and can be anything he
wants to be, but he doesn't see it. He doesn't even know who his father
is. He keeps hoping Apollo will claim him, because the only thing he is
good at is archery — although not good enough to win camp war games. His
bulky physique makes him feel like an ox, especially infront of Hazel,
his closest friend at camp. He trusts her completely — enough to share
the secret he holds close to his heart.

“Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just
like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your sister can
turn people to stone.' Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, boy! That was
Medusa's curse alone. she was the most hideous one in the family. She
got all the luck!" Stheno looked hurt. "Mother said I was the most
hideous.” “Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: “They’re wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!”

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl,
Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan,
but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She
and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series
when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother
leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums,
writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for
every movie premiere.

Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.Now
that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to
be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort
zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around
boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end
of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk
about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s
loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the
question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her
hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want
to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

tisdag 16 juli 2013

Titel: The Lost HeroFörfattare: Rick RiordanSerie: The Heroes of Olympus #1Sidor: 553

Jason has a problem.He
doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding
hands with a girl. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper. His best
friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness
School, a boarding school for "bad kids", as Leo puts it. What he did to
end up here, Jason has no idea—except that everything seems very wrong.

Piper has a secret.Her
father, a famous actor, has been missing for three days, and her vivid
nightmares reveal that he's in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend
doesn't recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures
attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away
to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on?

Leo has a way with tools.His
new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place
beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters,
and fine-looking girls. What's troubling is the curse everyone keeps
talking about, and that a camper's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his
bunkmates insist they are all—including Leo—related to a god.

“I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn
beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak
than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building
and yell 'Flame on!'"Leo snorted. "If I did that, you would see a
flaming kid falling to his death, and I would be yelling something a
little stronger than 'Flame on!” “Leo choked. "Your mom is a rainbow goddess?""Got a problem with that?" Butch said."No, no," Leo said. "Rainbows, very macho.""Butch is our best equestrian," Annabeth said. "He gets along great with the pegasi.""Rainbows, ponies," Leo muttered."I'm gonna toss you off this chariot," Butch warned.”

måndag 15 juli 2013

Titel: PureFörfattare: Julianna BaggottSerie: Pure #1Sidor: 461Pressia
barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before.
In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she
lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world
went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers
and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused,
damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn
themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if
they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can
no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.

There
are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked
safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet
Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome,
feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just
because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his
brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their
shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome
has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped
phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his
life to leave the Dome to find her.

fredag 12 juli 2013

Titel: Shadow and BoneFörfattare: Leigh BardugoSerie: The Grisha #1Sidor: 356The Shadow Fold, a swathe
of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters that feast on human
flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka.

Alina,
a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into
the lavish world of the kingdom’s magical elite—the Grisha. Could she be
the key to unravelling the dark fabric of the Shadow Fold and setting
Ravka free?

The Darkling, a creature of seductive charm and
terrifying power, leader of the Grisha. If Alina is to fulfill her
destiny, she must discover how to unlock her gift and face up to her
dangerous attraction to him.

But what of Mal, Alina’s childhood
best friend? As Alina contemplates her dazzling new future, why can’t
she ever quite forget him?

“The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.”

“You're shaking.""I'm not used to people trying to kill me.""Really? I hardly notice anymore.”

“This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing
sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the
handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and
empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened
monsters.”

torsdag 11 juli 2013

When the goddess
Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now
it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is
powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the
winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing
an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first
Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was
hunting when she disappeared—a monster rumored to be so powerful it
could destroy Olympus forever.

When demonic
cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half
Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through
the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan
lord Kronos draws near.

“Are you guys busy?" Juniper asked. "Well," I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die." "We're not busy," Annabeth said.”

“A demigod!" one snarled."Eat it!" yelled another.But that's as far as they got before I slashed a wide arc with Riptide and vaporized the entire front row of monsters."Back
off!" I yelled at the rest, trying to sound fierce. Behind them stood
their instructor--a six-foot tall telekhine with Doberman fangs snarling
at me. I did my best to stare him down."New lesson, class," I
announced. "Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial
bronze sword. This change is completely normal, and will happen to you
right now if you don't BACK OFF!"To my surprise, it worked. The
monsters backed off, but there was at least twenty of them. My fear
factor wasn't going to last that long.I jumped out of the cart, yelled, "CLASS DISMISSED!" and ran for the exit.”

All year the
half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing
the odds are against them. Kronos is stronger than ever, and with every
god and half-blood he recruits, his power only grows.

In this
momentous final book in the "New York Times" best-selling series, the
prophecy surrounding Percy's sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the
battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy
faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own
fate.

“I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of:a) The darkb) Cold shivers up your spinec) Strange noisesd) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling offIn other words, I thought it was awesome.” “Everybody was patting Nico on the back, complimenting him on his
fighting. Even the Ares kids thought he was pretty cool. Hey, show up
with an army of undead warriors to save the day, and suddenly you're
everybody's best friend.”

Jessie Darker goes to
high school during the day, but at night she helps with the family
investigation business. Cheating husbands and stolen inheritances?
They’re your girls—but their specialty is a bit darker. Zombie in your
garage? Pesky Poltergeist living in your pool? They’ll have the problem
solved in a magical minute. For a nominal fee, of course...

When
gorgeous new client, Lukas Scott, saunters into the office requesting
their help to find a stolen box, it sounds like a simple case—until the
truth comes out. The box is full of Sin.

Seven deadly ones, in fact.

They’ve
got five days to recapture the Sins before they're recalled by the box,
taking seven hijacked human bodies with them. Easy peasy—except for one
thing...

There’s a spell that will allow the Sins to remain
free, causing chaos forever. When the key ingredient threatens the life
of someone she knows, Jessie must make the ultimate choice between love
and family—or lose everything.

Percy Jackson’s
seventh-grade year has been surprisingly quiet. Not a single monster has
set foot on his New York prep-school campus. But when an innocent game
of dodgeball among Percy and his classmates turns into a death match
against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, things get . . . well, ugly.
And the unexpected arrival of Percy’s friend Annabeth brings more bad
news: the magical borders that protect Camp Half-Blood have been
poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and unless a cure is found, the only
safe haven for demigods will be destroyed.

In this fresh, funny,
and hugely anticipated follow up to The Lightning Thief, Percy and his
friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their beloved
camp. But first, Percy will discover a stunning new secret about his
family—one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon’s
son is an honor or simply a cruel joke.

“We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was
pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling by one hand
from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another
handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch
of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to
put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face. "Sorry," she murrmured. "S'okay," I grunted, though I'd never really wanted to know what Annabeth's sneaker tasted like.”

"You weren't able to talk sense into him?""Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death.""I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.”

“THAT Perseus always won. That's why my mom had named me after him, even though he was a son of Zeus and I was a son of Posidon. The original Perseus was
one of the only heros in the Greek myths who got a happy ending. The
others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the
gods. My mom hoped I would inherit Perseus's luck. Judging by how my
life was going so far, I wasn't real optimistic.”

After
the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’s facing the
impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her.
Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole
world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With
pleasure.

All Katy can do is survive.

Surrounded
by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After
all, there are sides of Daedalus that don’t seem entirely crazy, but the
group’s goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more
disturbing. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen?

Together, they can face anything.

But
the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths
are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and
Katy be standing on?